Our flagship event designed to cater to the needs of those who design, build, operate and maintain our built environment. These sessions focus on the use of BIM tools, BIM processes and workflows, as well as project and practice strategies and leadership skills.

The Building Content Summit (BCS) is an event dedicated to bringing together thought leaders from within the design, manufacturing and software sectors to discuss best practices for development and how to leverage BIM content within projects.

Aimed at students and educators, BILT academy is a one-day summit including Labs with exciting and interesting experts as speakers to provide the opportunity to discover the current state of the art practices and workflows in a multiple platform environment.

A hackathon is a design 'sprint-like' event where teams of usually between 3-6 people work together based on a specific theme, with the goal to create usable software or hardware as a functioning prototype or product by the end of the event.

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Design Technology Summit Goes Online

Greetings everyone! I began writing this blog post in March, at that time we were about “three weeks in” as I put it. As I said then, we find ourselves… in a very different atmosphere. We knew COVID-19 would reach North America, but I think none of us were truly prepared for the astonishing change […]

DBWNA Chairman’s Wrap Up

This year’s event was held in the beautiful city of Seattle in the wonderful venue of the new downtown Hyatt Regency. It was the largest event ever for DBEI! And yet, it still had the benefit of bringing together leaders in the industry with passionate, innovative people in an environment that promoted continual networking. We […]

Feeding the Augmented, Assistive & Artificial

At this year’s Design Technology Summit in Seattle Washington, there will be discussion of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is something that will surely feed the accelerating phenomenon of perpetual innovation our industry is experiencing. You will know from previous articles that the AEC Industry is seeing an unprecedented increase in the number of tools available […]

Communications: Are they Listening?

The Design Technology Summit will kick off July 17, 2019, in Seattle Washington. I hope you were able to get your application submitted in time before all the spots were accepted and filled. Yes! We did sell out this year, and we anticipate a lively, thought-provoking discussion. I look forward to seeing everyone. If you […]

Applying Lessons from Columbia and Challenger

January 28th, 1986 – Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart a little over a minute into flight.[i] February 1st, 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry into the atmosphere.[ii] A total of 14 astronauts died as a result of these tragedies. Many of you are asking yourselves, “What could possibly be the connection between these […]

DTS Speaker Spotlight: Jarod Schultz

The Design Technology Summit (DTS) brings together professionals from the AEC industry that have an impact on implementing technology within their firms. DTS has been utilizing small forum discussions since its conception and we are excited to incorporate round tables with BiLT NA 2019 Thursday’s sessions. This format will allow attendees to be involved with […]

ContinuousNEXT

As 2019 begins with great anticipation, so do the groans of many team members in despair of what new technology we are going to be trying to force upon them. But as history has shown us, the ability to adapt to change is a key component to surviving in today’s ever changing environment. Recently the […]

Merry Christmas from the Team at DBEI!

the Digital Built Environment Institute would like to wish you a very joyous Christmas and New Year period. We thought we’d leave you with a couple of things you may like to know. Planning is now already well under way for our major 2019 events. We have a few key dates coming up in January […]

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DBEI has been closely monitoring the COVID-19 (coronavirus) situation around the world. While some parts of our society are beginning to open in baby-steps, none of us know how the situation will develop over the coming months. As such, DBEI has now made the decision to postpone all our 2020 events to 2021 as the well-being of all our partners and participants in our events remains our utmost priority. For new details on each region please visit our event pages. We have also sent communications to all registered attendees, speakers or sponsors for all of our 2020 events.

In the interim, DBEI will be launching several exciting virtual events and webinars in 2020 to continue to deliver the same expertise, insights and knowledge to the AEC industry during these uncertain times. We also have some other exciting initiatives we are working on to continue to provide value to our community, which we look forward to sharing with you all shortly.

We wish to thank you all for your support and appreciate your patience and understanding under the current circumstances and will continue to update our website and the community if there are any changes.

If you have any concerns or questions about our events please email us at info@dbei.org